Nothing horrible occurred in the days before and after that “benevolent monster” stared us down, but we’re still at risk. Right?

Well, NASA officials have been trying to calm the denizens of Earth by stating that “there simply isn’t enough energy in the sun to send a killer fireball 93 million miles to destroy Earth.” While coronal mass ejections could wipe out our electronics, as far as we can tell, solar flares just can’t go that extra distance to totally and completely annihilate life on our planet.